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Originally Posted by SteveD

As a population statistic freak, I thought it would be helpful to post a few numbers.

Birmingham MSA July '05: 1,090,126 3.6% growth since July '00
Mobile MSA July '05: 401,427 0.4% growth since July '00

Both areas also have CSAs, and Birmingham's (Birmingham Hooover Cullman - 1,150,961) is roughly twice the size of Mobile's (Mobile Daphne Fairhope - 551,578), as of July '03.

I'm excited about growth and development in both areas, but it's not likely that Mobile's MSA or CSA will surpass Birmingham's MSA or CSA any time soon, and, if current growth rates persist, ever. Birmingham is likely to be Alabama's largest metro for the foreseeable future.

In the first figures you compared what would most likely be the standard metro poulation of Birmingham to just Mobile county. Also according to your second figures; Mobiles metro population would have had to shrink by at least 20,000 in the last year or two, but those figures are slightly older than the ones I am going by, so your figures are not quite as correct as mine.